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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )

TV Series | TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

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The Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the NYPD, investigate sexually related crimes.

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Mariska Hargitay

Olivia Benson

(434 episodes, 1999-2018)
Ice-T

Odafin Tutuola

(412 episodes, 2000-2018)
Dann Florek

Donald Cragen

(331 episodes, 1999-2015)
Richard Belzer

John Munch

(326 episodes, 1999-2016)
Christopher Meloni

Elliot Stabler

(272 episodes, 1999-2011)
BD Wong

Dr. George Huang

(230 episodes, 2001-2015)
Tamara Tunie

Dr. Melinda Warner

(222 episodes, 2000-2018)

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Dick Wolf

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Trivia

Until season fifteen, Detective Olivia Benson's address was 203 West 89th Street Apartment 4E (or 4D, depending on the episode).

Det. Elliot Stabler: An ME out of the lab? It must be big.
M.E. Melinda Warner: I got the report back from the contents of the vomit.
Det. Olivia Benson: Am I going to want to stop eating for this?
M.E. Melinda Warner: Roast beef, mozzarella cheese, corn and raisins. Luckily, it had only been in the stomach a few hours, so it was ...

Goofs

Despite many of the crimes being homicides in addition to being sex crimes, homicide detectives are not shown to have responded to the case. The major crime would be the murder itself, with the sex crime elements being included offenses.

Crazy Credits

From the second episode of the second season (2000-2001), the opening credits break the pattern followed by the earlier episodes of SVU, the original Law & Order, and Criminal Intent. Instead of the credits ending with a shot of the cast walking towards the camera, they instead are shown sitting around a desk.